Owen stars again as Bracknell RFC record a third straight win - but the Lily Hill men miss out on a bonus point

George Owen (right) put 22 points on the board for Bracknell during the victory over Oxford Harlequins on Saturday. (Image: Jon Mikol)

Rory Greenslade-Jones has challenged his Bracknell side to be more ruthless following Saturday's 27-15 victory over Oxford Harlequins.

Although two tries from in-form George Owen and a Stuart Silvester effort secured the Lily Hill Men a third consecutive league victory, the side missed out on picking up a bonus point, much to the frustration of the head coach.

He said: “It wasn’t a brilliant game and not a great spectacle.

“At the end of the day it was the right result, but our aim is to try and totally execute teams this season and unfortunately we left a couple of tries behind so we didn’t get the bonus point.

“I have put the challenge to the boys to really try and put teams to the sword and get those bonus points.

“Unfortunately we didn’t quite get there on Saturday, so we will be working on some of the things we didn’t do quite so well this week in training.

“But we have got a good squad of 18 players who are fighting for us and we are heading in the right direction.”

A slow start from the hosts should have been punished. However, the Quins No.10 was unable to find his range, missing two of three early penalties.

A period of Bracknell pressure soon followed, and an infringement from an opponent which resulted in a yellow card saw Owen tie up the scores with the resulting penalty.

The winger, who ran in a hat-trick of tries at Old Redcliffians the weekend before, was then at it again, kicking over another penalty before crossing the line for another score – which he duly converted – to give the hosts a 13-3 half-time lead.

Oxford hit back after the restart with two tries of their own – only for hooker Silvestre and Owen to respond on both occasions by breaching the whitewash.

The latter added the extras to both tries, with the man-of-the-match taking his individual tally for the afternoon to 22 points.

“It was a funny old game,” added Greenslade-Jones.

“It was very patchy and the weather contributed to that. It was hot and humid, something like 26 or 27 degrees, and for that reason both teams struggled to get going, and there was a lot of errors.

“It was great to get the win, but a little bit disappointing not to get the bonus point.

Bracknell will be looking to secure a fourth win on the spin this tomorrow, but standing in their way are local rivals Redingensians, who are currently unbeaten this season.

The game will be played at Reading RFC’s Holme Park stadium, with kick off at 2pm, as work to build a new clubhouse at Rams' Old Bath Road ground have hit delays.

Greenslade-Jones said: “Redingensians have probably had the easier start If I’m honest with you and they have missed a game as well.

“I think by switching the game to Reading they lose a little bit of advantage as well, because they have not used Holme Park before.

“But it will still be a big test and a tight game and we will be going there with fire in our bellies and the boys will need no extra motivation for this fixture.

“Hopefully come 3:40pm on Saturday we will be on the positive side of the result.”